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While performing at a nightclub in 1991, she met Sezen Aksu.[2] For some time, she worked as a backing singer and worked together with several other artists on their music.[3]

Yıldız released her first album Delikanlım in 1994, and songs from this and later albums have been played on the radio outside of Turkey.[4] Tilbe writes and composes most of her songs and also produces for other artists, including Tarkan, Funda Arar, Demet Akalin, Gulben Ergen.[3]

Yıldız has sometimes spoken hatefully of Jews and of Israel on social media.

After the 2006 Israeli airstrike on Lebanon, live on television Tilbe said, "May God bring down one disaster after another upon Israel," to which the studio audience answered, “Amen.”[7]

After the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in early July 2014, Tilbe is said on social media site Twitter: "God bless Hitler, it was even too few what he did to the Jews, he was right" and "The Jews will be destroyed by Muslims, in the name of Allah, not much time left for it to be done".[8][9]